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Amazon workers to strike at multiple US warehouses during busy holiday season

https://www.reuters.com/technology/amazon-workers-strike-multiple-us-warehouses-during-busy-holiday-season-2024-12-19/
423petethomas | | 529 | HN
RavlaAlvar | parent | next
https://www.reddit.com/r/AmazonFC/comments/1hhips1/amazon_te...

Interesting to see discussion on Reddit from r/AmazonFC are pretty negative , wonder if these are genuine employees comment for PR team hired by Amazon

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ternnoburn | parent | next
Amazon actively incentivizes (pays) employees to write positively about their experiences on social media.
mik09 | root | parent
that sounds dystopian if its true
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ChrisArchitect | parent | next
Related:

Amazon Teamsters in NYC have voted to authorize a strike

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42436279

rsanek | parent | next
10k is about 0.7% of their total employee count. I wonder if this will have any effect.
ActionHank | parent | next
It will have more business people asking about robots, other than that I doubt it will. Amazon don't even care if the packages are late because of this, they still get your purchase.
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ciabattabread | parent
I wonder that too. They been doing this for a while now around the big shopping holidays. And yet, I never hear about any major disruptions.

Maybe the union needs to change tactics?

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okokhacker | parent | next
I’m not sure why the general sentiment here is that Amazon workers do not deserve a living wage and should be replaced with robots.

All the best to the union, I sincerely hope they meet your demands.

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ramon156 | parent | next
Had to buy some simple toolkit today. It was 5 bucks on Amazon, but I decided to find a local store that sells it. Same price btw.

I think we should be a bit more aware about the impact of ordering everything through Amazon. Not only regarding delivery, but also the message it sends to local stores.

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bdcravens | parent | next
Amazon used to be the cheapest in almost every category, but more and more, I find that places like Harbor Freight beat them. I even bought a pricey resin printer and a wash and cure station the other day; Microcenter had them beat by $100+.
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InDubioProRubio | parent | next
Imagine you are taxed to repair the roads, on which your untaxed competitors is driving too ruin you.. a nightmare.
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a12k | parent | next
I’ve found that the rise of Apply Pay as a payment mechanism on random sites has been helpful in getting me off of Amazon. Often it’s just as easy to order something direct if they have Apple Pay (or ShopPay, but I have other issues with them) and the same price as Amazon. Plus discoverability is awful on Amazon anyways.

Still don’t get the Whole Foods return ability when not shopping from Amazon, but not punching in my credit card number to random sites has been enough to get me to move 50% of my shopping to retailers direct.

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ITB | parent | next
I don’t understand why all these comments are about who buys or doesn’t buy at Amazon. The article is about unionization and strikes. I expect a conversation about the merits of unions and their negotiation tactics. In my opinion, events like these will just accelerate job elimination. The goal of a logistics company is to be reliable. Humans are unreliable and more so when they are purposely and collectively unreliable. I’ve lived in a country with very powerful unions and it sucks— miss every 5th flight because the union decides to strike.
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uxcolumbo | parent | next
I've unsubscribed from Amazon Prime and Audible.

I don't mind waiting an extra for my stuff to arrive.

It's important to support other smaller retailers.

Amazon already started with enshittyfying some of their services.

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SeanAnderson | parent | next
Just a reminder that if you search for "Thank my driver" on Amazon you'll get $5 donated to your most recent delivery driver at no cost to you. You can do this once per delivery, for every delivery, for the few weeks leading up to the holidays.
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twiddling | parent | next
Bring in the Pinkertons
hiddencost | parent | next
Try avoiding Amazon this holiday season, to not cross the picket line.
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lnsru | parent
I am just curious who still orders anything today with delivery expectation to get it before Xmas. From my experience the delivery drivers are today delivering tons of stuff ordered a week ago and they are so overloaded, that todays order might come only in January.
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